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#101

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Posted: 6/25/06 at 11:57am

JoAnne Worley and Shirley Jones at the Joseph tour. Those two plus Camryn Manheim at the Hairspray tour!

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#102

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/21/08 at 10:58pm

Big bump. My aunt sat next to Tom Hanks at some improv show, Not broadway. She looked at him and he apparently had a look of "PLEASE! DON'T SAY ANYTHING" on.

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#103

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:05pm

They're not really famous, but I saw Jonathan B. Wright and Leslie Kritzer at Next to Normal two weeks ago. JBW wasn't seeing the show, he was just there to pick up Jenn Damiano because they were going to see Rent.

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#104

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:10pm

I saw Kevin Kline at DRS and Robert Sean Leonard at the Company closing.

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#105

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:29pm

Notable Random Run- ins For Me:

August: Osage County- Frank Rich
Three Days of Rain- Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs
Rock n Roll- Jimmy Fallon and Lorne Michaels
All Shook Up- Tommy Hilfiger
10 Million Miles- Keri Russell
Romeo and Juliet- Cynthia Nixon
Spring Awakening- Chris Noth
Hair- Priscilla Lopez
See What I Wanna See- Eden Espinosa
Frankenstein- Sutton Foster
The Public's Anniversary at City Center- Stephen Sondheim
Flora the Red Menace- Veanne Cox
Spelling Bee- Hugh Jackman
LoveMusik- Hal Prince (does this count?)
Grey Gardens, Rent, Next to Normal, Romeo and Juliet- Michael Greif (I have never seen a show of this man's without seeing him there... good for him, active director!)
Lennon- Donna Murphy
Lennon- Jai Rodriguez
Lennon- Yoko Ono
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life- Brian Stokes Mitchell
Drowsy Chaperone- Gavin Creel
Tarzan- Phil Collins
The Times They Are A- Changin'- Tony Kushner (i'm only 90% sure of this... but it looked like him!)
Little Dog Laughed- Celia Keenan- Bolger, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and more Spelling Bee- ers

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#106

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:37pm

Infinite, Idina and Taye must go to Broadway shows a lot, because they sat 2 rows in front of us at The Wedding Singer. Very cute couple.

#107

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:40pm

Ellen Burstyn was at "Frost/Nixon" when we saw it in May.

Barbara Walters was at "Sunday in the Park with George" when I saw it last Sunday.

#108

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Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:02am

Victor Garber and Michael Cerveris when I saw Gypsy last summer. I also ran into Sondheim outside of the theater before the show began. Pretty surreal experience, I have to say.

There wouldn't be lights bright enough!

#109

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Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:15am

When I saw the Follies revival, I sat in front of Michael Gross (father on Family Ties). Then at intermission saw John Lithgow. Exchanged pleasantries with both, but did not make a big deal of it.

#110

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:32am

I saw Kelly Clarkson and Reba M. at Mary Poppins last summer. Kenny G was at Chicago last June.

Oh, and Paul Newman at 110 in the Shade last year.

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#111

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:51am

Wow, this thread is still going! Okay, since my last post on this almost two years ago: at different performances of Spring Awakening, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Sisto, Al Sharpton...Ciaran Hinds of Seafarer at Conversations in Tusculum, Ethan Hawke at 100 Saints You Should Know, Marian Seldes and Janel Moloney at Parlour Song, Tyne Daly at a Dancer's Life visiting with Chita Rivera, Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz at Party Come Here (the NY Musical Theater Festival)....

#112

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:32am

I sat a few rows in front of Jim Carey when I saw Urinetown. The rumor in the theatre was that they were talking about making a movie musical and he would be Lockstock.

Words can't express how glad I am that it didn't come to pass.

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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#113

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:37am

Cindy Williams was sitting two rows in front of me at Drowsy shortly before she dropped into the show and George Wendt was in a box at Hairspray shortly before he dropped in.

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#114

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:50am

i sat next to stephen speilberg at jersey boys

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#115

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 6:47am

Chris Parnell at Next to Normal
Ryan Cabrera at RENT
Amanda Bynes at Spring Awakening

#116

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:15am

Andie MacDowell at "Legally Blonde"
Ana Gasteyer at "Spring Awakening"

#117

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:48am

Madonna at We Will Rock You

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#118

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 8:39am

Bono and The Edge at Spring Awakening

#119

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 10:21am

He isn't really famous. Spencer Liff (currently in Cry-Baby, and was the films Hairspray and Across the Universe). He was sitting behind me when I saw Legally Blonde.

Broadway Shows I've Seen: Hairspray, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors (2003), The Wedding Singer, Spamalot, Riverdance, Rent, Beauty and the Beast, Spring Awakening, Wicked, Legally Blonde, Phantom of the Opera, Sweet Charity (revival), Drowsy Chaperone, The Lion King, Dreamgirls(2010 Tour).

#120

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 10:37am

I saw John Kerry at the Spamalot tour in Boston. It was really obnoxious because people kept trying to go talk to him and clogging the aisles...

#121

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 10:38am

Cindy Williams was sitting two rows in front of me at Drowsy shortly before she dropped into the show

I totally forgot - Cindy sat in front of me a few nights before she started in Drowsy. She was so into the show, it was great :)

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#122

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:45pm

I can't type this whole list over again, but:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardid=1&boardname=bway&thread=960060#3487796

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#123

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:52pm

Billy Joel, Andrea Bowen (Desperate Housewives), and Will's BF from Will and Grace (who was great in Mauritius) at Spring Awakening.
Ana Gasteyer at Next to Normal, along with a bunch of bway people (hayley podschun, titus burgess, aaron albano).

#124

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 1:03pm

Last July when a couple of friends and I were in onstage seating at Xanadu we saw Whoopi in the audience. (There was someone else too but we never did figure out who she was...but she was definitely familiar.)

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#125

re: Famous people who you saw at a broadway show

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:22pm

I thought I already posted a while back but I just scanned this thread and didn't notice. If I did, I apologize for the repeat.

I saw Jake Gyllenhaal during intermission at Spring Awakening. It was Feb. 2007. He was very nice and gave me his autograph. He asked if I was enjoying the show so far (I was) and said that he liked it, too.

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